Deborah Page-Dumroese, Ph. D.
Speaker Title
Senior Research Soil Scientist
Organization
USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
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Abstract
A few key collaborators
Nate Anderson – supply chain
Kas Dumroese – growing seedlings
Derek Pierson – carbon
Dan McCollum – economics
Carlos Rodriguez-Franco – forest management
Joanne Tirocke – CharBoss® operations
Too much low-value woody biomass!
• Overstocked forests
• Long-term droughts
• Fire suppression
• Insects and disease
• Dead trees
• Lack of infrastructure
• No or few markets for small-diameter material
Choices and finding balance
Challenges in land management, social science, and climate change
What to do with unmerchentable wood? • Leave some coarse wood
• Burn
• Decompose
• Biochar
• Combinations?
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